CVE-2018-0499

Publication date 2 July 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
xapian-core	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.4.5-1ubuntu0.1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 1.4.4-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

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versions precise/esm, trusty and xenial are not affected second upstream msg "1.2.x doesn't have this method, so isn't vulnerable".

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3709-1
Xapian-core vulnerability
10 July 2018